09:00 - 09:30

Registration

09:30 - 09:45

Welcome

09:45 - 10:15

Plenary Speech 1

• E. Zacharias:
  "Entry, Relocation and Welfare"

10:15 - 10:45

Plenary Speech 2

• E.Tzavalis (with G. Kapetanios):
  "Modeling Structural Breaks in Economic Relationships Using Large Shocks"

10:45 - 11:10

Coffee Break

11:10 - 13:30

Session 1: Quantitative Analysis

• N. Giannelis:
  "EMU Enlargement: Do Real Exchange Rates Follow a Nonlinear Equilibrium Process?"

• P. Xidonas:
  "On multiobjective optimization in portfolio selection"

• F. Zied:
  "Structural Change in Inflation Series: Evidence from IT Countries"

• G. Panos:
  "Entrepreneurship in Post-Conflict Transition: The Role of Informality and Access to Finance"

• R. Karagiannis:
  "A Parametric Decomposition of the Output-Oriented Malmquist Productivity Index for Public Hospitals in Greece"

• St. Karagiannis:
  "The Emerging BRIC Economies: Evidence from the Interest Rate Transmission Mechanism"

13:30 - 15:00

Lunch

15:00 - 15:30

Plenary Speech 3

• I. Billias:
  "Adjustments of Rao's Score Test for Distributional and Local Parametric Misspecifications"

15:30 - 16:30

Special Student Session

• P. Gioti:
  "Duration Analysis of Economic Cycles: An Empirical Analysis Using Data from USA"

• A. Gkagka:
  "Transportation Costs and Final Prices: A Case Study for Fuels in Greece"

• Sp. Dimou:
  "Female Participation in the Labor Force: Evidence from Greece

16:30 - 16:45

Coffee Break

16:45 - 17:30

Special Student Session

• V. Malioura:
  "Purchasing Power Parity in Asian Economies"

• St. Roupakias:
  "NAIRU Estimates for Greece: A semi - structural Approach"

20:30

Dinner

10:00 - 10:30

Plenary Speech 4

• M. Doumpos:
  "Monotonic Support Vector Machines for Credit Risk Rating"

10:30 - 11:00

Plenary Speech 5

• K. Rontos (with C. Tzimos and C. Mavroudis):
  "Modeling Rural Areas in Greece: A Demo-Economic Approach"

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 - 13:00

Session 2: Economic Theory

• K. Pouliakas:
  "Modelling the Effects of Labour Migration on Regional Economic Performance and the Wage Distribution: A bi-directional CGE Analysis of Scotland, Greece and Latvia"

• Ou. Karakosta:
  "Tariff-Tax Reforms and Public Goods Under Imperfect Competition"

• P. Kammas:
  "Fiscal Decentralization and Public Sector Efficiency: Evidence from OECD Countries"

• Th. Bassetti:
  "Human Capital, International Trade and Technology Diffusion"

• Ath. Lapatinas:
  "On the Nature of Labour Adjustment Costs"

13:00 - 13:30

Coffee Break

13:30 - 14:00

Plenary Speech 6

• C. Syriopoulos:
  "TBA"

14:00 - 15:30

Lunch - Meeting End